Departmental Public Expenditure

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 2 April 2009,  Official Report, column 1376W, on public expenditure, how much his Department  (a) allocated and  (b) spent on (i) sport, (ii) the arts and (iii) heritage in 2008-09.

Si�n Simon: holding answer 9 September 2009
	It is my Department's policy to publish details of funding spent, as opposed to funding allocated, to avoid confusion or potential double-counting where end-year flexibility has been applied or where funds have been transferred in year. The amount of Exchequer funding spent by DCMS and its NDPBs on sport, the arts and heritage in 2008-09 is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  2008-09 
			   000 
			 Sport (including central DCMS spend) 215,813 
			 Arts (including central DCMS spend) 435,465 
			 Heritage (including Royal Parks and Listed Places of Worship Scheme plus central DCMS spend) 224,833

English Heritage: Fees and Charges

Edward Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the average price of entry to an English Heritage property was in  (a) 1996-97,  (b) 2008-09 and  (c) 2009-10.

Si�n Simon: holding answer 9 September 2009
	Information from English Heritage is that the average price of entry to an English Heritage property, based on one full price adult ticket, in 1996-97, 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as set out in the following table.
	
		
			   Average charge ()  Constant sample of sites 
			 1996-97 2.16 104 
			 2008-09 4.33 104 
			 2009-10 4.52 104

Heritage Lottery Fund: Grants

Jeremy Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been distributed by the Heritage Lottery Fund  (a) in cash terms and  (b) expressed in current prices in each year since its foundation.

Si�n Simon: holding answer 9 September 2009
	Information from the Heritage Lottery Fund is that the amount paid to recipients of HLF grants in each financial year is as set out in the following table.
	
		
			   million 
			   Actual cash terms  Current prices 
			 1994-95 0 0 
			 1995-96 35.9 49.5 
			 1996-97 79.0 105.0 
			 1997-98 129.7 168.1 
			 1998-99 186.2 236.3 
			 1999-2000 264.9 329.7 
			 2000-01 374.4 459.9 
			 2001-02 241.6 290.3 
			 2002-03 245.1 285.3 
			 2003-04 303.9 344.1 
			 2004-05 284.8 313.7 
			 2005-06 356.6 385.6 
			 2006-07 339.1 356.1 
			 2007-08 299.4 306.0 
			 2008-09 297.1 297.1

Music

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he expects the 12 pilot community music rehearsal spaces announced in December 2007 to be operational.

Si�n Simon: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The first spaces were opened in Liverpool and Bristol in May and July 2009, respectively. It is difficult to be precise about the opening dates of further spaceseach has different requirements for instruments and these have to be sourced and costed before we can make a grant offer for the local authority concerned to consider. However, we are hopeful of making such offers in respect of five further spaces in the next few monthsin St. Austell, Nottingham, Washington (near Sunderland), Hastings, and rural Norfolk. Discussions are also under way about setting up spaces in Manchester, Coventry and Birmingham.

Bus Services: Concessions

Simon Hughes: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department plans to take to assist local authorities to meet the cost of freedom passes for pensioners and the disabled.

Chris Mole: Local authorities receive the bulk of their funding for concessionary travel via the formula grant system, which is administered by the Department for Communities and Local Government. Since April 2008, local authorities have also received funding from the Department for Transport in the form of a special grant to meet the additional cost of the extended England national bus concession. The special grant was 212 million in 2008-09, has risen to 217 million this year and will increase to 223 million in 2010-11. The Government are confident that there are sufficient funding, in total, for statutory concessionary travel.
	In addition, the Government paid a grant of around 31 million in 2007 to local authorities outside London to replace existing bus passes with new ITSO smartcard passes. Over eight million of these have now been issued. London has received a grant of 4.8 million in 2009 to facilitate the replacement of existing freedom passes with new smartcard passes from April 2010.

Railways: West Midlands

David Lidington: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the estimated cost to the public purse is of High Speed Two's work to produce a report on a possible new rail link between London and the West Midlands.

Chris Mole: The estimated cost of High Speed Two's work is 8.5 million.

Animal Welfare Act 2006

Ian Cawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent progress has been made on the implementation of codes of practice for animal welfare under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Huw Irranca-Davies: During the last 12 months, we completed public consultation exercise on four draft codesfor the keeping of cats, dogs, equines and regulations and a code for meat chicken welfare. We are also consulting on the welfare of non-human primates in private ownership. We have been considering the many responses we had to the consultation on each draft code and have held discussions with key stakeholders. Once the draft codes have been finalised we will then ask Parliament to approve them.

Floods: Finance

Ian Cawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his Department's plans are for expenditure on flood defences in 2010-11; and how much it spent in 2009-10.

Huw Irranca-Davies: The Government are committed to effective management of flood and coastal erosion risk. It stands by its previous forecast of spending a record 2.15 billion on flood and coastal erosion risk management over three years and its commitment to spend 780 million in the 2010-11 financial year, with 20 million of the original 800 million moved forward into 2009-10 budgets to provide early protection for 27,000 homes.
	Within the Government's previously announced figures for 2010-11, 659 million is going to the Environment Agency, local authorities' own expenditure will be an estimated 87 million and the remainder retained by DEFRA to implement the Pitt Review findings and help communities to adapt to climate change.
	In August, the Secretary of State announced which local authorities will benefit from funding set aside to implement the findings of the Pitt Review.

Office of Water Services: Operating Costs

Anne McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the change in  (a) staff costs and  (b) other costs was between the Ofwat Business Plan for (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09.

Huw Irranca-Davies: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The changes in staff and other costs between Ofwat's Business Plans for 2007-8 and 2008-9 are detailed in the following table:
	
		
			  Business Plan/budget () 
			   Staff costs  Other costs  Total 
			 2007-08 8,326,645 4,673,355 13,000,000 
			 2008-09 10,203,867 7,696,133 17,900,000 
			 Increase 1,877,222 3,022,778 4,900,000 
		
	
	Ofwat set out in its 2008 strategy document Taking a forward look' that it needed to increase its budget for 2008-09 to take account of additional resources to deliver key projects including:
	delivering the 2009 price review;
	reviewing how it sets price limits in 2014;
	promoting competition in consumers' interests;
	enforcement; and
	litigation and casework.
	Ofwat's actual expenditure for the years 2007-08 and 2008-09 are available in its Resource Accounts, which are available on the website.

Sudan: Overseas Aid

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the monetary value of his Department's aid seized by the government of Sudan; what steps he is taking to ensure the return of that aid to the organisations to which it was directed; and if he will make a statement.

Douglas Alexander: No aid was seized directly from the Department for International Development (DFID) by the Government of Sudan. It is estimated, however, that around 500,000 of British-funded goods were included in the seizures of assets from non government organisations (NGOs). The UK condemned the expulsion and closures of the 13 international NGOs and three local NGOs in unequivocal terms. We have consistently said that the best way to repair the damage was to revoke that action.
	In partnership with the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), USAID, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), we have made it clear to the Sudan Government that the seizure of assets in this way was completely unacceptable. We expect it to make every effort to have the assets reassigned to other humanitarian programmes, as is common practice under closure or completion of DFID-funded humanitarian programmes.

Housing

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 28 October 2008,  Official Report, column 956W, on housing, for what reasons the Housing Reform Green Paper will not be proceeded with; and which Minister took the decision not to proceed.

John Healey: The Government have taken decisive action to ensure this country's housing needs are met. We have committed to investing 7.5 billion over two years to deliver up to 112,000 affordable homes and around 15,000 private homes, including 340 million to support local authorities in delivering new council housing. We have taken early action to provide people facing the threat of repossession with help at every stage of the process. I am also introducing a range of major reforms to the social and private rented sector. This includes the consultations I have recently published on a devolved system of responsibility and funding for council housing, a major review of the private rented sector and changes to social housing allocations to give councils more leeway on decisions to allocate housing in their area, and the initiative I have launched to clamp-down on fraud in the social sector. In addition, I will be setting out further details of the Government's plans to support housing recovery and ensure people have access to decent homes later this year. I therefore currently have no plans to pursue an additional housing reform green paper.

Children's Centres: Hendon

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what Sure Start children's centres are open in Hendon; what services each provides; what  (a) capital and  (b) revenue funding for them has been provided by (i) the Government and (ii) the London Borough of Barnet; and what steps he plans to take to ensure their future security of funding.

Dawn Primarolo: London borough of Barnet currently has 14 Sure Start Children's Centres up and running, of these three are in Hendon offering access to services to around 3,100 children under five and their families. There are no additional children's centres planned for Hendon.
	The Department allocates funding to local authorities for the capital start up and revenue costs of Sure Start Children's Centres through the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant. It is for local authorities to determine how to allocate the funding between individual centres. The Department does not collect information on how much is allocated and spent at centre level. Information on the services provided by individual centres is available from the local Family Information Service. London borough of Barnet's capital and revenue allocations for the delivery of Sure Start Children's Centres for 2008-11 can be found in the following table. We are committed to delivering 3,500 Sure Start Children's Centres by 2010, a children's centre for every community so every family has easy access to high quality integrated services in their community and the benefits of Sure Start can be felt nationwide. Funding allocations beyond 2010-11 will be subject to future spending decisions.
	
		
			  Barnetchildren's centres funding all ocations f or CSR period 2008-11 
			   Revenue  Capital 
			 2008-09 3,651,335 781,046 
			 2009-10 4,912,063 1,638,600 
			 2010-11 5,983,537 959,513

Schools: Barnet

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the allocation for Barnet for  (a) dedicated schools grant and  (b) guaranteed funding per pupil is for (i) 2009, (ii) 2010 and (iii) 2011; what the change in per pupil funding was in (A) cash and (B) percentage terms between 1997 and 2009; and what (1) total and (2) per pupil funding allocation for Barnet for 2009-10 is for (aa) school development grant, (bb) school standards grant, (cc) school standards grant (personalisation), (dd) ethnic minority achievement grant, (ee) extended schools, (ff) primary strategy, (gg) school lunch grant, (hh) music services, (ii) harnessing technology (ICT) and (jj) devolved formula capital.

Vernon Coaker: The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) for 2008-09 to 2010-11 (indicative) for Barnet local authority is shown in table 1 as follows. This covers pupils aged three to 15.
	
		
			  Table 1: DSG Allocation for Barnet local authority 
			million 
			 2008-09 (Final) 195.074 
			 2009-10 (Final) 202.138 
			 2010-11 (Indicative) 213.958 
		
	
	The guaranteed unit of funding for 2008-09 to 2010-11 for Barnet local authority is shown in table 2 as follows:
	
		
			  Table 2: Guaranteed unit of funding for Barnet local authority 
			
			 2008-09 (Final) 4,559 
			 2009-10 (Final) 4,723 
			 2010-11 (Final) 4,917 
		
	
	Per pupil revenue funding figures for pupils aged three to 19 for Barnet local authority for years 1997-98 and 2005-06 are shown in table 3. These figures are in cash terms.
	
		
			  Table 3 
			   Barnet local authority revenue funding per pupil 
			 1997-98 () 2,740 
			 2005-06 () 4,680 
			 Percentage increase between 1997-98 and 2005-06 (%) 71 
			  Notes: 1. Price Base: Cash. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged three to 19 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert  million figures to  per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 
		
	
	The revenue per pupil figures shown in table 4 is taken from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 (in table 3 above) because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
	The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. The DSG is based largely on an authority's previous spending.
	In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.
	To provide a comparison for 2008-09 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06 (the baseline); as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.
	The total and per pupil revenue funding figures for 2005-06 and 2008-09 for Barnet local authority are provided in table 4 as follows. The figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19 and are in cash terms:
	
		
			  Table 4 
			   Barnet local authority revenue funding per pupil 
			 2005-06 (Baseline) () 4,430 
			 2008-09 () 5,200 
			 Percentage increase between 2005-06 and 2008-009 (%) 17 
			  Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant, School Standards Grant, School Standards Grant (Personalisation) and Standards Fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level. 2. Price Base: Cash. 3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19. 4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. 5. Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. 
		
	
	The figures for Standards Funds are recorded according to allocation per authority not per pupil; the following table shows the total allocations that Barnet has been awarded in 2009-10 for grants that the hon. Member for Hendon requested.
	
		
			  Grant name  2009-10 allocation 
			 School Development Grant 11,819,753 
			 School Standards Grant 7,215,008 
			 School Standards Grant (personalisation) 2,061,955 
			 Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant 2,887,337 
			 Extended SchoolsSustainability 747,190 
			 Extended SchoolsSubsidy 170,721 
			 Extended SchoolsCapital 545,093 
			 Primary Strategy: Targeted Support 1,044,874 
			 School Lunch Grant 488,946 
			 Music 333,851 
			 Harnessing Technology 903,101 
			 Devolved Formula Capital 5,128,895

Schools: Hendon

Andrew Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools in Hendon have received central government capital funds other than devolved formula capital since 1997; how much each received in each year; for what purpose the grant was allocated in each year; and what the percentage difference was between capital expenditure on such schools in 1996-97 and 2009-10.

Vernon Coaker: The Department allocates much of its capital resources on a local authority area basis. It then relies on the local authority to prioritise resources between schools, including any further resource available locally. Accordingly, records on the schools in Hendon which have received funding since 1997, and their purposes, are not held centrally and would be held locally by Barnet local authority. Allocations to Barnet between 1996-97 and 2009-10 are set out in the following table.
	
		
			million 
			 1996 3.1 
			 1997 1.8 
			 1998 5.6 
			 1999 3.9 
			 2000 12.0 
			 2001 8.9 
			 2002 48.7 
			 2003 15.1 
			 2004 22.0 
			 2005 18.6 
			 2006 69.7 
			 2007 15.5 
			 2008 26.3 
			 2009 40.4 
		
	
	The allocation figures show the year the financial commitment was made by the Department. The 69.7 million in 2006-07 includes a Building Schools for the Future pathfinder allocation and an Academy, and the 40.3 million in 2009-10 includes an advance of funding brought forward from 2010-11 as part of the Government's fiscal stimulus.

Special Educational Needs

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will commission research into educational provision for children in each category of special educational needs.

Diana Johnson: The Department for Children Schools and Families currently has an active programme of research across the special educational needs code of practice.
	Research currently under way includes a project which is exploring the apparent variation in the prevalence of children with SEN, how they are classified in terms of both condition and Code of Practice stage of support, and the provision of services to support them, with a view to understanding how a more equitable service offer can be supported. We also have a programme of research under way which aims to improve the evidence base relating to developing services for children and young people with speech language and communication needs.
	We are currently commissioning a formative and summative evaluation of the Achievement for All project and the approaches strategies, approaches and tools used within it, as well as an evaluation of a current programme to raise awareness of British Sign Language (BSL) and for increasing specialist work force able to provide courses in BSL being implemented in two pilot areas.
	We also recently published a qualitative research study looking at parental confidence in the special educational needs assessment, statement and tribunal system.
	Research projects funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families are published at:
	www.dcsf.gov.uk/research

Departmental Manpower

Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of employees in his Department are (a) women and  (b) men; and what the average hourly pay of (i) male and (ii) female employees is.

Joan Ruddock: holding answer 20 July 2009
	 The percentage split is:
	
		
			   Percentage 
			 Women 43 
			 Men 57 
		
	
	The average hourly rate of pay for male and female employees is not available.
	The relatively new Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been in existence since October 2008, and consists of posts taken from the former Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
	Since its creation, DECC has continued to use the pay provisions of its parent Departments. As a consequence, no separate DECC information on hourly pay rates is available, and could only be obtained by an exercise involving a review of the total HR systems and payrolls for both BERR and DEFRA. Therefore the information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost to the Department. The effort required to administer your request would exceed the financial limit prescribed of 700, which represents the estimated cost of determining whether the Department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Gas and Electricity Markets Authority

Alistair Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment his Department has made of the merits of extending the remit of Ofgem to include responsibility for regulation of the bottled gas market.

Joan Ruddock: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The Gas Act 1986 (as amended), which among other things set up the gas regulatory bodies, exempted liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from its provisions. The Gas Act principally addressed the issues of setting up a regulatory regime to ensure that the national transmission system for gas users was not exploited. In contrast, there is no natural monopoly in the transport of LPG by road. The LPG market operates with a number of distributors competing for supply using alternative supply sources. In that sense, it is broadly similar to other products such as diesel and petrol.
	The Department has not therefore made an assessment of the merits of extending the remit of Ofgem to include responsibility for regulation of the market for LPG. My officials however have had meetings with Consumer Focus to contribute to its assessment of the market in Great Britain for the supply of LPG and heating oil for domestic use.
	For information on former BERR and DEFRA staffing issues, please see the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey statistics published by the Office for National Statistics. These can be found at the following website:
	http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/cs0109.pdf
	These statistics are collected from the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey, but please note that the ONS collects the annual gross salary of civil servants and does not produce hourly rates of pay. The latest published statistics are for 31 March 2008, and consequently do not feature stats for DECC.

Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations

Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons the journalist Michael Yon is no longer embedded with British armed forces in Afghanistan.

Bob Ainsworth: Opportunities to embed with Task Force Helmand are in high demand from across the medianational, regional, print, broadcast, specialist and new media. It is not possible to meet all requests and slots must be time-limited to ensure that the opportunities are shared as widely as possible. A normal embed for a national news organisation will last on average around two to three weeks, including time for travel.
	Michael Yon had been embedded with British forces on a number of occasions before his recent visittwice in Iraq in 2007, and once in Afghanistan in 2008. His latest embed had been scheduled to last for two weeks but it was extended to take account of delays to his arrival.
	In all, his stay was extended twice and he was embedded for five weeksmuch longer than is normally the case, and longer than had been agreed with him before he went. He was facilitated by British forces in a number of locations and given a high level of access both to the operations and to our personnel. At the end of this five-week period Task Force Helmand ended his embed as they were no longer able to support it given their other commitments, including other media visits.

Armed Forces: Bullying

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many cases of bullying in each of the armed forces have been reported in each year since 1997.

Quentin Davies: The following table reflects the number of bullying complaints reported since October 2006 for each service. Some tri-service defence organisations do not record the service to which the complainant belongs. Statistical data prior to October 2006 is not held centrally.
	
		
			   Royal Navy  Army  RAF  Tri-service organisations with placed military 
			  Formal complaints 
			 October 2008 to March 2009 6 25 18 5 
			 October 2007 to September 2008 14 18 40 1 
			 October 2006 to September 2007 16 40 28 0 
			  
			  Informal complaints 
			 October 2008 to March 2009 29 38 23 6 
			 October 2007 to September 2008 65 37 52 3 
			 October 2006 to September 2007 67 51 50 0

Armed Forces: Housing

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was charged to occupants of Modern Housing Solutions housing for damage to that housing in each financial year since 1997.

Kevan Jones: Details of the total amounts charged are only available from November 2007 and represent the charges for all service family accommodation (SFA) in Great Britain (up to 31 March 2008) and the UK thereafter. The charges were as follows:
	
		
			  Period  Total amount charged () 
			 1 November 2007 to 31 March 2008 (1)200,070 
			 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 (2)1,080,394 
			 1 April 2009 to 31 August 2009 (2)473,759 
			 (1) GB SFA only. (2) UK SFA only 
		
	
	These charges also cover SFA properties in Scotland, which are not maintained by Modern Housing Solutions.

Armed Forces: Mental Health Services

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel normally based in Scotland were referred to the Priory Clinic as  (a) inpatients and  (b) outpatients in each year since 2003.

Kevan Jones: An interim arrangement for the contracting of service mental health provision was signed with the Priory Group commencing in December 2003. The full contract, whereby the Priory Group became the primary provider of in-patient mental health provision, commenced on 1 April 2004.
	The available data are anonymised for reasons of patient confidentiality. Therefore, it is not possible to identify which patients from all those treated would be categorised as service personnel normally based in Scotland.
	From the available information the following numbers of in-patients were treated at the Glasgow Priory Clinic since 2003 but referrals could have included patients from locations outside Scotland:
	
		
			   Number of patients treated 
			 1 December 2003-31 March 2004 (1) 
			 1 April 2004-31 March 2005 30 
			 1 April 2005-31 March 2006 37 
			 1 April 2006-31 March 2007 23 
			 1 April 2007-31 March 2008 28 
			 1 April 2008-7 February 2009 25 
		
	
	Out-patient care is usually provided by the MOD's military departments of Community Mental Health, of which there are three in Scotland located at Leuchars (Edinburgh), Faslane (Glasgow) and Kinloss (Inverness). The only specific out-patient only referrals that we contract for is the provision of psychology treatment. This element of the Priory contract commenced in 2006 and the total number of patients referred can be found in the table:
	
		
			   Number of patients treated 
			 1 April 2006-31 March 2007 0 
			 1 April 2007-31 March 2008 (1) 
			 1 April 2008-7 February 2009 7 
			 (1) Indicates a number less than 5, and is used to protect patient confidentiality, in line with our standard practice for very low numbers of patients. 
		
	
	The contract with the Priory Group has been replaced by a new one, awarded in November 2008 following open competition, with a partnership of seven NHS trusts led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Depleted Uranium: Scotland

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  how many times and at what locations depleted uranium shells have been test-fired in Scotland in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how much is Department has spent on test-firing depleted uranium shells in the last five years;
	(3)  how many depleted uranium shells were test-fired in Scotland in each of the last five years;

Quentin Davies: Depleted uranium shells were test-fired at the MOD-owned Kirkcudbright Range in Scotland on 11 and 12 March 2008. This is the only occasion on which depleted uranium shells have been test-fired in the last five years; 20 shells were fired in total. The estimated cost of the test-firing is 60,000.

Guided Weapons

Angus MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many missile practice camps there were at each UK missile range in  (a) 2008 and  (b) 2009 to date; what missiles were tested at each; how many camps there will be in (i) the remainder of 2009 and (ii) 2010; and what missiles will be tested at each.

Quentin Davies: Details of Missile Practice Camps(1) (MPCs) at UK Ranges since 2008, including those that are currently planned for 2009 and 2010, are set out as follows. Additional MPCs are likely to be added to the schedule in due course.
	
		
			  MOD Aberporth 
			  Date  Missile details  Number of MPC 
			 2008 Sidewinder 18 
			  ASRAAM(2) (inc. above) 
			
			 2009 (to date) ASRAAM(2) 3 
			  Sidewinder 2 
			
			 2009 (scheduled) Sidewinder 2 
			
			 2010 (scheduled)  0 
		
	
	
		
			  MOD  Hebrides 
			  Date  Missile details  Number of MPC 
			 2008 Rapier 2 
			  AMRAAM(3) 1 
			
			 2009 (to date) Rapier 2 
			  HVM 1 
			
			 2009 (scheduled) Rapier 1 
			
			 2010 (scheduled) ASRAAM(2)( )and AMRAAM(3) 1 
			  Rapier (tbc) 2 
		
	
	
		
			  MOD  Manorbier 
			  Date  Missile details  Number of MPC 
			 2008 HVM(4) 6 
			 2009 (to date) HVM(4) 9 
			 2009 (scheduled) HVM(4) 2 
			 2010 (scheduled) HVM(4) 1 
		
	
	
		
			  South West Approaches 
			  Date  Missile details  Number of MPC 
			 2009 (scheduled) Sea Dart 1 
			 (1) Defined as a training exercise involving air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles for UK forces. (2) Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile. (3) Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. (4) High Velocity Missile.

Territorial Army: Higher Education

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on each university corps in the University Officer Training Corps in each year since 1997.

Kevan Jones: There are 19 University Officer Training Corps (UOTCs) in the United Kingdom. Their costs are calculated at regional brigade level not by individual unit.
	The table shows the expenditure by each brigade for the last three financial years where information is available. The figures have been rounded to two decimal places and the sum of the component parts may not equal the total which is also a rounded figure.
	
		
			  Million 
			  Regional brigades  UOTCs within the brigade  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			 51 Scottish Brigade Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde, Tayforth 6.44 5.05 5.28 
			 15 North East Brigade Leeds, Northumbrian, Sheffield 4.57 4.04 4.11 
			 42 North West Brigade Liverpool, Manchester 2.48 2.46 2.62 
			 160 Wales Brigade Wales 1.45 1.42 1.82 
			 143 West Midlands Brigade Birmingham 1.42 1.31 1.66 
			 49 East Brigade Cambridge, East Midlands 2.78 2.84 3.10 
			 43 Wessex Brigade Bristol, Exeter 2.82 2.53 2.97 
			 145 Home Counties Brigade Oxford, Southampton 2.68 2.56 2.73 
			 HQ London District London 2.00 2.03 2.32 
			 38 Irish Brigade Belfast  1.49 1.52 
			 Total  26.64 25.72 28.13 
		
	
	Information on costs prior to 2006-07 is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Type 42 Destroyers

Michael Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent on recycling decommissioned Type 42 destroyers to date.

Quentin Davies: MOD is committed to disposing of its ships in the most environmentally sound and cost effective manner.
	Four Type 42 destroyers have been recycled to date (Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Newcastle). The cost of recycling HMS Cardiff, Glasgow and Newcastle was approximately 1.09 million per platform. These costs included the preparation necessary to meet environmental requirements, equipment removals, overhaul, repair, transport and storage.
	Records are no longer held of the costs associated with the preparation of HMS Birmingham for disposal.

Non-domestic Rates: Ports

Bob Neill: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what external legal costs the Valuation Office Agency has incurred on cases relating to the new retrospective business rates being levied on firms in ports; and which legal firms and chambers have been instructed in such cases.

Stephen Timms: There are no new retrospective business rates being levied on firms in ports. The statutory provisions under which the occupiers of land and buildings in ports are being assessed to non-domestic rates was enacted by Parliament in 1988; and the principle that assessments may be back-dated to the first day of the current list in appropriate circumstances has been a feature of that legislation since its first enactment. The Valuation Office Agency has so far incurred 18,943.71 in external legal costs in cases arising out of the Valuation Office Agency's review of port hereditaments.
	These costs are all Counsel's fees, and the Valuation Office Agency has instructed Counsel practising from Landmark Chambers, Wilberforce Chambers and 1 Crown Office Row.

Valuation Office: ICT

Philip Dunne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much  (a) the Valuation Office Agency and  (b) contractors on its behalf have spent (i) in total and (ii) since September 2005 on the automated valuation model.

Stephen Timms: Expenditure by  (a) the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) to secure the investment in its automated valuation model (AVM) technology, to support a range of its activities, has amounted to approximately
	(i) 13.7 million in total; which includes
	(ii) 6.7 million since September 2005.
	These figures include payments made to the VOA's IT supplier, Capgemini, a proportion of which covers their expenditure with third party IT suppliers (under separate contracts). As the VOA is not party to these separate contracts, it is not possible to provide the amount spent by  (b) contractors working on their behalf.

Incapacity Benefit

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate her Department has made of the total monetary value of payments to recipients of incapacity benefit in each year since 1997.

Jonathan R Shaw: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The available information is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Incapacity benefitExpenditure for Great Britain 
			   million 
			   Cash  2009- 10 p rices 
			 1997-98 7,412 9,726 
			 1998-99 7,251 9,316 
			 1999-2000 6,790 8,556 
			 2000-01 6,766 8,415 
			 2001-02 6,749 8,211 
			 2002-03 6,758 7,965 
			 2003-04 6,724 7,706 
			 2004-05 6,662 7,432 
			 2005-06 6,650 7,270 
			 2006-07 6,566 6,987 
			 2007-08 6,658 6,893 
			 2008-09 6,535 6,601 
			  Notes: 1. Figures to 1999-2000 include significant expenditure on people above pension age. 2. All figures are outturn expenditure, rounded to the nearest million pounds. 3. The DWP benefit expenditure tables can be viewed at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/expenditure.asp   Source: DWP accounting data, as published in the DWP benefit expenditure tables.

Dangerous Dogs Act 1991:

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many  (a) prosecutions were brought and  (b) convictions were secured for offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in each local authority area in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in each of the last five years.

Claire Ward: Information showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act in the Hampshire police force area, 2003 to 2007 (latest available) are shown in the following table. Data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
	Data have been provided for Hampshire police force area as information by local authority is not collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice.
	
		
			  Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, Hampshire police force area, 2003 to 2007( 1,2) 
			   2003  2004  2005  2006  2007 
			 Proceeded against 34 47 42 41 44 
			 Found guilty 16 23 16 21 32 
			 (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.  Source: Evidence and Analysis UnitOffice for Criminal Justice Reform

Departmental Drinking Water

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department spent on water coolers in each of the last six months.

Michael Wills: Expenditure on water coolers can only be separately identified within two areas of the Departmentheadquarters and the Office of the Public Guardian. Expenditure in the period April to September 2009 amounted to 3,420. Invoices are received quarterly and cannot be broken down by month.
	Identification of expenditure on water coolers in the rest of the Ministry of Justice would involve the examination of a large number of invoices, many held locally within the courts, prison and probation systems, and would incur disproportionate cost.
	The Ministry's policy is to move away from water coolers to mains-fed water filtration systems on cost and environmental grounds. Such a system is in operation in the Ministry's main headquarters building.

Departmental Drinking Water

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has spent on bottled water in each of the last six months.

Michael Wills: The Ministry's accounting records do not specifically record expenditure on bottled water. To identify relevant expenditure would require examination of thousands of individual invoices, many held locally within the courts, prison and probation systems, and would incur disproportionate cost. It has, however, been possible to identify expenditure on bottled water within the Ministry's headquarters function as stated:
	 April 2009-September 2009:
	Ministry of Justice HQ1,315
	Billing is on a quarterly basis so cannot be provided for each month. The expenditure relates to bottled water used for water coolers and dispensers. The cost includes sanitisation and maintenance of these devices. Water dispensers are gradually being replaced by mains-fed water filtration systems across the Ministry's estate. The Ministry no longer provides bottled water when catering for meetings or events within its headquarters buildings.

Departmental Internet

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent on the maintenance of his departmental website in each of the last two years.

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice does not separately identify expenditure on website maintenance in its accounting records. However, the Ministry's Information, Communications and Technology division holds offline records on this expenditure for the following business areas for the last two financial years:
	
		
			   
			   2008-09  2007-08 
			 Ministry of Justice HQ 1,410,000 1,625,160 
			 Tribunals Service 146,256 0 
			 Office of the Public Guardian 0 18,000 
			 Total 1,556,256 1,643,160 
		
	
	It is not possible to reliably distinguish website maintenance costs from other IT expenditure for HM Courts Service and the National Offender Management Service except at disproportionate cost.

National Archives

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how much the annual budget for the National Archives  (a) has been in each year since 1997 and  (b) is for 2009-10;
	(2)  which organisations were consulted before the decision was taken to reduce the budget of the National Archives by 4.2 million.

Michael Wills: The National Archives was created in April 2003. Since then it has featured in a series of machinery of government changes. The first occurred in 2006 with the transfer of the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) from the Cabinet Office, and the second in 2008 when the Statutory Publications Office (SPO) moved from the Ministry of Justice both adding to the scope of the National Archives' policy and service delivery responsibilities.
	The table shows the resource and capital budget out-turn for the National Archives for the period 2003-04 to 2008-09 and the current budget plans for 2009-10. In order to ensure proper comparability all the figures shown above assume that both OPSI and the SPO are part of the National Archives throughout.
	
		
			   million 
			   Out-turn  Plan 
			  Year  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009 
			  Financial year  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09  2009-10 
			  Department  TNA  TNA  TNA  TNA  TNA  TNA  TNA 
			  MOG (year and body merged) OPSI   SPO  
			  Budgeting spending
			 Resource 39.1 39.0 42 4 39.3 43.2 45.4 48.7 
			 Capital 3.4 2.0 1.9 2.7 5.8 3.3 2.1 
			 
			 Total department spending (the adjusted total of resource plus capital minus depreciation) 38.2 36.3 39.7 37.2 44.3 44.3 44.2 
		
	
	There have been no cuts to the National Archives' budget. They have recently announced some proposals for restructuring their public services to ensure they can operate sustainably for the next few years. The Lord Chancellor and I have been fully briefed on both the rationale and details of the proposals. We are both supportive of them recognising that these were operational decisions made by the management team.

Prisoners

Simon Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average daily allocation of funding is for food for a prisoner in England.

Jack Straw: For the current financial year the National Offender Management Service introduced a maximum benchmark of 2.10 per prisoner per day. Many establishments already operate below this level and provide good quality food. Those operating above the benchmark are working towards reducing their costs with appropriate central support.
	Evidence and experience has proven that acceptable healthy meals can be provided in prisons within this level of funding by carefully managing menu content and utilising key messages from the Department of Health in regard to promoting a healthy diet.

Prisoners: Suicide

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many prisoners have been placed on suicide watch while serving a custodial sentence of each type in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how many prisoners have attempted suicide while serving a custodial sentence of each type in each of the last five years;
	(3)  how many and what proportion of prisoners have committed suicide while serving a custodial sentence of each type in each of the last five years.

Claire Ward: Information on 'suicide watches' is not collated or held by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). NOMS has a broad, integrated and evidence-based prisoner suicide prevention and self harm management strategy that seeks to reduce the distress of all those in prison. This encompasses proactively identifying prisoners at risk of suicide and self-harm. At-risk prisoners are cared for using Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork (ACCT) procedures. Detailed data is not readily available however some 31,000 ACCT plans are opened each year. These can be opened repeatedly for the same prisoner. There are no easy answers to managing self harming behaviour but NOMS remains committed to finding ways to manage it.
	Without exploring the intent behind a self-harm incident, it is difficult to establish such an incident as an attempted suicide. NOMS does not record intent, and does not hold information on attempted suicides. Table 1 shows annual totals of self-harm incidents by type of custody. Although intent is not recorded and the majority of incidents are not life threatening, analyses show that approximately 1.7 per cent. of all self-harm in prison involves hanging as a method or require resuscitation or hospitalisation on life support.
	
		
			  Table 1: Self harm incidents by type of custody: England and Wales 
			   Number of incidents( 1. 2) 
			   2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			 All 19,579 23,806 23,423 22,897 24,944 
			 Convicted un-sentenced 2,556 3,242 3,222 2,893 3,146 
			 Immigration Detainee 126 129 280 198 198 
			 Remand 3,232 4,048 4326 4351 4297 
			 Sentenced 10,267 12,710 11,509 10,033 11,048 
			 Sentenced - Indeterminate(3)  41 765 1,872 2,809 
			 Sentenced-License recall 1,353 1,754 1,925 1,978 2,014 
			 Not recorded(4) 2,045 1,882 1,396 1,572 1,432 
			 (1) These figures have been drawn from the NOMS incident reporting system and exclude a small proportion on incidents using the new NOMIS system. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns but the data collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although the figures are shown to the last individual the figures may not be accurate to that level. (2) In prisons, as in the community, it is not possible to count self harm incidents with absolute accuracy. In prison custody, however, such incidents are more likely to be detected and counted. (3) A new indeterminate sentence Imprisonment for Public Protection was introduced in 2005 and numbers of prisoners held on such sentences have been increasing. They are considered to be an existing high risk group and so the increase in this category if offset elsewhere. (4) The apparent high number of unrecorded custody status arises from the fact that many self harm incidents occur in the early stages of custody at which time IT systems may not have had been fully updated. 
		
	
	Every death in prison is a tragedy, and affects families, staff and other prisoners deeply. Ministers, the Ministry of Justice and NOMS are completely committed to learning from each death and to reducing the number of such incidents. Good care and support from staff save many lives, but such instances go largely unreported. Prisons successfully keep safe in any given month approximately 1,500 prisoners assessed to be at particular risk of suicide or self harm. Deaths in prisons are among the most scrutinised of all incidents and each case is subject to a police investigation and independent investigation by the Prisons Probation Ombudsman. Robust systems are in place for monitoring deaths and learning from them.
	The numbers and proportions of self-inflicted deaths by type of custodial sentence, for each of the last five years, are detailed in table 2.
	
		
			  Table 2: Self-inflicted deaths in prison custody( 1)  by type of custody: England and Wale 
			2004  2005  2006  2007  2008 
			  All  95 78 67 92 60 
			
			 Convicted unsentenced Number of deaths 15 9 4 7 3 
			  Percentage of all deaths 16 12 6 8 5 
			
			 Detainee Number of deaths 1 
			  Percentage of all deaths 2 
			
			 Judgment respited Number of deaths  3 1 5 2 
			  Percentage of all deaths  4 1 5 3 
			
			 Remand Number of deaths 33 28 17 29 20 
			  Percentage of all deaths 35 36 25 32 33 
			
			 Sentenced Number of deaths 47 38 45 51 34 
			  Percentage of all deaths 49 49 67 55 57 
			
			 SentencedIndeterminate Number of deaths   2 4 4 
			  Percentage of all deaths 0 0 3 4 7 
			
			 SentencedLicense recall Number of deaths 9 6 10 9 6 
			  Percentage of all deaths 9 8 15 10 10 
			 (1) Deaths in prison custody figures include all deaths of prisoners arising from incidents during prison custody They include deaths of prisoners while released on temporary license (ROTL) for medical reasons but exclude other types of ROTL where the state as less direct responsibility. Approximately one third of the deaths in prison custody shown here actually occur in hospitals or hospices.

Prisons: Females

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many abstinence-based therapeutic programmes there are for drug and alcohol addiction in women's prisons; and how many prisoners  (a) entered and  (b) completed such programmes in each year for which records are available.

Jack Straw: A comprehensive drug treatment framework is available for women in prison. Interventions fall into three groups: clinical treatment (detoxification and maintenance), counselling, assessment, referral, advice and throughcare services (CARATs) and (abstinence-based) accredited drug treatment programmes.
	Currently four different accredited drug treatment programmes are available to women in various establishments: 12-Step, P-ASRO (PrisonAddressing Substance-Related Offending), the Short Duration Programme (SDP) and Therapeutic Communities (TCs). The following table shows the number of prisoners starting and completing these programmes in each of the last five years.
	
		
			   2004-05( 1)  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09 
			   Starts  Completions  Starts  Completions  Starts  Completions  Starts  Completions  Starts  Completions 
			 12 STEP 60 36 61 38 57 37 60 31 56 39 
			 PASRO 152 112 89 99 100 73 74 59 60 52 
			 SDP 152 98 394 264 572 437 571 390 594 412 
			 TC 64 37 33 19 38 23 40 25 16 11 
			 Total 428 283 577 420 767 570 745 505 726 514 
			 (1) 2004-05 is the first full year for which accurate starts and completions data are available.  Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. 
		
	
	Where alcohol is part of poly-drug misuse, CARAT services are available to all women prisoners in England and Wales. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is available in 11 women's prisons, although no participation data are collected centrally.

Racially Aggravated Offences

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each ethnic group were convicted of racially aggravated offences in 2007; and for what offences they were convicted.

Claire Ward: Data on the ethnicity of persons convicted, in England and Wales, is not available for racially aggravated offences due to incomplete returns.
	The Office for Criminal Justice Reform is currently working with Her Majesty's Court Service (HMCS), and representatives from National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to improve the level of recording in both the police and the courts.

Shields: Michael

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to the public purse was of legal advice and representation in the concluded judicial review in the case concerning Michael Shields.

Jack Straw: The judicial review on Michael Shields' application for a free pardon was concluded on 17 December 2008 in the Administrative Court. The total cost of legal advice and representation associated with the judicial review was 64,577 including disbursements and VAT.

Carers

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how much funding was allocated to each primary care trust from the 50 million provided for funding breaks for carers in 2009-10;
	(2)  how much was allocated to each local authority from the 240 million provided for carer's grant in 2009-10;
	(3)  how much funding was allocated to each primary care trust from the 100 million provided for funding breaks for carers in 2010-11.

Mike O'Brien: The additional 150 million provided for funding breaks for carers was given to primary care trusts (PCTs) as part of their overall baseline allocations. The Department does not break down PCT revenue allocations by policies at either a national or local level and there is no weighted capitation formula specific to carers that would allow needs to be accurately identified at the local level. So it is therefore for PCTs to decide their priorities for investment locally, taking into account their local circumstances and local priorities.
	The allocations made to each local authority from the 240 million provided for the carers grant are detailed in the local authority social services letter LASSL(DH)(2007)2 which has already been placed in the Library.

Hospitals: Parking

Simon Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much revenue was generated by charges on  (a) staff,  (b) patients and  (c) others for the use of car parks at (i) Broomfield and (ii) St John's Hospital in Chelmsford in each of the last five years.

Mike O'Brien: The revenue generated by car parking charges for staff, patients and other users at Mid Essex hospitals NHS trust Broomfield and St. John's for the last five years are shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Mid Essex hospital services NHS trustcar parking charges by staff and visitors 
			   
			   Broomfield hospital  St. John's hospital 
			   Income from staff  Income from visitors  Income from staff  Income from visitors 
			 2003-04 31,851 295,075 13,650 126,461 
			 2004-05 51,366 503,418 12,916 120,645 
			 2005-06 62,383 598,525 12,569 128,913 
			 2006-07 89,000 689,740 2,247 162,214 
			 2007-08 235,443 496,745 4,315 203,449

Learning Disability: Housing

Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of adults with learning disabilities were in settled accommodation  (a) in total and  (b) in each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement.

Mike O'Brien: Recent figures show that around 65 per cent. of adults (18 to 64) with learning disabilities known to services were in settled accommodation at the time of their latest assessment or review in England from April 2008 to March 2009.
	The information presented in the following table is provisional data published by the NHS Information Centre and shows both England and council level information relating geographical areas from April 2008 to March 2009. This information was collected for the first time in 2008-09 and is therefore not available for previous years.
	
		
			  Number and percentage of working age (18-64) learning disabled clients known to Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review, England. Based on data for NI 145 from the National Indicator Set 
			 NIS Indicator NI 145 Adults aged 18-64 with learning disabilities in settled accommodation 
			  NI 145 NI 145 NI 145 NI145 (VSC05) 
			  Numerator Capped numerator Denominator Indicator 
			  Number of working age learning disabled clients known to CASSRs who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review. Aged 18-64  Number of working age learning disabled clients known to CASSRs who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review. Aged 18-64 The percentage of adults with learning disabilities aged 18-64 known to (CASSRs) in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review 
			 Cumbria 395 395 1,285 61.1 
			 Northumberland 810 625 1,250 100.0 
			 Gateshead 180 180 480 74.0 
			 Newcastle Upon Tyne 410 410 915 89.3 
			 North Tyneside 170 170 505 68.1 
			 South Tyneside 95 95 425 45.5 
			 Sunderland 365 355 705 100.0 
			 Hartlepool Unitary Authority (UA) 205 170 345 100.0 
			 Middlesbrough UA 230 230 665 69.5 
			 Redcar and Cleveland UA 150 150 440 67.9 
			 Stockton-on-Tees UA 170 170 525 65.4 
			 Durham 560 560 1,430 78.4 
			 Darlington UA 145 130 260 100.0 
			 Barnsley 540 270 540 100.0 
			 Doncaster 230 230 725 62.8 
			 Rotherham 425 340 675 100.0 
			 Sheffield 410 410 1,455 56.6 
			 Bradford 565 565 1,520 74.5 
			 Calderdale 150 150 545 54.4 
			 Kirklees 435 435 1,345 64.8 
			 Leeds 285 285 1,595 35.8 
			 Wakefield 480 480 985 97.2 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire UA 375 375 840 89.2 
			 Kingston Upon Hull UA 150 150 445 68.2 
			 North East Lincolnshire UA 155 155 490 64.2 
			 North Lincolnshire UA 155 155 415 74.7 
			 North Yorkshire 420 420 1,060 79.2 
			 York UA 185 185 485 76.2 
			 Bolton 395 330 655 100.0 
			 Bury 280 215 435 100.0 
			 Manchester 480 480 1,550 61.6 
			 Oldham 135 135 535 50.4 
			 Rochdale 185 185 620 59.7 
			 Salford 300 300 665 89.8 
			 Stockport 200 200 655 61.0 
			 Tameside 320 320 765 84.0 
			 Trafford 365 230 455 100.0 
			 Wigan 225 225 785 56.8 
			 Knowsley 250 250 610 81.9 
			 Liverpool 1,205 685 1,375 100.0 
			 Sefton 275 275 735 75.5 
			 St. Helens 100 100 385 50.8 
			 Wirral 275 275 1,065 51.8 
			 Cheshire 380 380 1,565 48.6 
			 Halton UA 185 185 425 86.7 
			 Warrington UA 185 185 440 84.6 
			 Lancashire 750 750 3,195 47.0 
			 Blackburn with Darwen UA 115 115 350 64.8 
			 Blackpool UA 170 170 410 83.2 
			 Warwickshire 295 295 1,190 49.5 
			 Birmingham 750 750 3,220 46.5 
			 Coventry 255 255 790 64.7 
			 Dudley 555 420 840 100.0 
			 Sandwell 285 285 765 75.0 
			 Solihull 110 110 520 41.8 
			 Walsall 180 180 550 64.7 
			 Wolverhampton 110 110 560 39.9 
			 Staffordshire 495 495 1,760 56.5 
			 Stoke-on-Trent UA 170 170 735 45.7 
			 Herefordshire UA 185 185 550 66.9 
			 Worcestershire 285 285 1,460 39.3 
			 Shropshire 390 390 800 97.3 
			 Telford and the Wrekin UA 155 155 445 68.5 
			 Lincolnshire 690 690 1,655 83.1 
			 Northamptonshire 515 515 1,420 72.8 
			 Derbyshire 565 565 2,120 53.4 
			 Derby UA 150 150 505 60.3 
			 Leicestershire 435 435 1,305 66.4 
			 Leicester UA 335 335 835 79.6 
			 Rutland UA 55 35 70 100.0 
			 Nottinghamshire 900 900 2,165 83.0 
			 Nottingham UA 285 285 660 85.9 
			 Hertfordshire 645 645 3,100 41.5 
			 Norfolk 430 430 2,215 39.0 
			 Oxfordshire 605 605 1,315 92.3 
			 Suffolk 970 810 1,620 100.0 
			 Bedfordshire 630 315 1,075 58.6 
			 Luton UA 180 180 400 89.2 
			 Buckinghamshire 500 500 1,265 78.9 
			 Milton Keynes UA 155 155 475 65.8 
			 Bracknell Forest UA 100 100 270 73.1 
			 West Berkshire UA 115 115 375 61.1 
			 Reading UA 150 150 415 72.2 
			 Slough UA 175 170 340 100.0 
			 Windsor and Maidenhead UA 195 155 310 100.0 
			 Wokingham UA 170 170 415 80.6 
			 Essex 1,060 1,060 3,435 61.7 
			 Southend-on-Sea UA 355 250 495 100.0 
			 Thurrock UA 75 75 200 73.3 
			 Cambridgeshire 495 495 1,365 72.7 
			 Peterborough UA 210 210 600 70.7 
			 Camden 155 155 320 97.5 
			 Greenwich 270 270 655 82.4 
			 Hackney 230 230 655 70.7 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham 120 120 410 59.2 
			 Islington 130 130 450 57.2 
			 Kensington and Chelsea 165 135 270 100.0 
			 Lambeth 115 115 500 46.2 
			 Lewisham 240 240 690 69.6 
			 Southwark 195 195 615 63.9 
			 Tower Hamlets 235 235 600 77.4 
			 Wandsworth 70 70 665 21.7 
			 Westminster 195 195 510 76.6 
			 City of London 10 5 15 100.0 
			 Barking and Dagenham 190 135 270 100.0 
			 Barnet 145 145 735 39.6 
			 Bexley 275 235 475 100.0 
			 Brent 425 420 840 100.0 
			 Bromley 80 80 795 20.6 
			 Croydon 255 255 1,100 46.3 
			 Ealing 255 255 905 56.3 
			 Enfield 300 300 730 82.7 
			 Haringey 245 245 580 84.8 
			 Harrow 165 165 465 70.1 
			 Havering 80 80 470 34.3 
			 Hillingdon 160 160 570 56.5 
			 Hounslow 220 220 545 80.1 
			 Kingston upon Thames 115 115 315 71.5 
			 Merton 125 125 450 54.8 
			 Newham 290 290 710 82.0 
			 Redbridge 495 325 650 100.0 
			 Richmond upon Thames 65 65 365 35.5 
			 Sutton 130 130 520 50.6 
			 Waltham Forest 100 100 370 52.8 
			 Isle of Wight UA 110 110 555 40.1 
			 Surrey 645 645 3,055 42.4 
			 West Sussex 530 530 1,565 67.8 
			 Dorset 290 290 950 61.3 
			 Bournemouth UA 175 175 435 81.0 
			 Poole UA 200 200 400 99.3 
			 Hampshire 905 905 2,975 61.0 
			 Portsmouth UA 45 45 590 14.9 
			 Southampton UA 125 125 350 71.2 
			 East Sussex 390 390 1,345 58.1 
			 Brighton and Hove UA 190 190 710 54.0 
			 Wiltshire 380 380 845 89.9 
			 Swindon UA 90 90 530 33.5 
			 Kent 700 700 3,820 36.8 
			 Medway Towns UA 350 345 690 100.0 
			 Cornwall 600 600 1,825 65.8 
			 Gloucestershire 270 270 1,565 34.4 
			 Somerset 330 330 1,430 45.9 
			 Isles of Scilly (1) (1) (1) (1) 
			 Bath and Somerset UA 55 55 375 30.4 
			 Bristol UA 245 245 1,220 39.8 
			 North Somerset UA 100 100 375 52.0 
			 South Gloucestershire UA 230 230 695 65.7 
			 Devon 900 900 2,100 85.9 
			 Plymouth UA 385 385 825 93.7 
			 Torbay UA 140 100 205 100.0 
			  
			 England total: complete data 45,610 43,095 132,285 65.2 
			 (1) Constituent values less than 5 are suppressed, where elements of an indicator are suppressed the indicator itself is also suppressed.  Note:  Values are rounded to the nearest 5.

Motor Neurone Disease: Wheelchairs

Mark Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when officials from his Department last met representatives of the Motor Neurone Disease Association to discuss wheelchair services; and if he will make a statement.

Mike O'Brien: Departmental officials last met representatives of the Motor Neurone Disease Association to discuss wheelchair services on 23 April 2009.
	The provision of wheelchair services is the responsibility of primary care trusts. However, we recognise the importance of peopleincluding those with Motor Neurone Disease and other rapidly progressing conditionsreceiving the services and support they need, which is why we commissioned the Care Services Efficiency Programme in June 2006 to develop a new model for the delivery of community equipment and wheelchair services.

Swine Flu: Cambridgeshire

Malcolm Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many cases of swine flu were registered by Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust in each week of the last six months; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  how many people in the Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust area contacted their GP with symptoms of swine flu in each week of the last six months; and if he will make a statement.

Mike O'Brien: Information on the number of people who contact their general practitioner (GP) each week is not collected. At the start of the outbreak, cases of swine flu were confirmed by laboratory testing and recorded by region not primary care trust (PCT). This information is available until 2 July 2009 and is given in the following table.
	On 2 July we moved to the treatment phase of the response to swine flu and we are now using clinical diagnosis instead of laboratory confirmation to identify cases of swine flu. This means we can no longer give detailed data about the precise number of cases. However, we have well-established seasonal influenza surveillance systems to monitor the spread, activity and impact of swine flu.
	3,300 GP surgeries provide reports on symptoms of flu in patients as part of the Q-Surveillance scheme and a further 100 surgeries across the country collect information on flu symptoms as part of the Royal College of General Practitioners surveillance scheme. This information is used to calculate the levels of influenza like illness in England. This information is published on a weekly basis by PCT on the Health Protection Agency website at:
	www.hpa.org.uk/hpr/infections/primarycare.htm
	
		
			  East of England Strategic Health Authority Pandemic H1N1 Influenza A cases, by week to 2 July 2009 
			  Date  Number of cases 
			 Up to 3 May 2009 0 
			 Week ending 10 May 2009 5 
			 Week ending 17 May 2009 6 
			 Week ending 24 May 2009 1 
			 Week ending 31 May 2009 8 
			 Week ending 7 June 2009 23 
			 Week ending 14 June 2009 7 
			 Week ending 21 June 2009 43 
			 Week ending 28 June 2009 219 
			 Week up to 2 July 2009 152

Holidays Abroad

Adam Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department spent on each of its campaigns aimed at Britons travelling abroad in each year since 2001; what research his Department has commissioned into the effectiveness of each such campaign; and if he will make a statement.

Chris Bryant: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 16 July 2009,  Official Report, column 612W.
	The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Know Before You Go campaign is evaluated on a six monthly basis to ensure targets are being met and that it effectively reaches the population. For example, in 2008-09 the campaign reached an estimated 64 per cent. of UK adults, in some cases up to 28.5 times. Our evaluation confirmed that the audience's response was highly favourable. The report also evaluates value for money, such as number of people reached per 1 spent, and the advertising value equivalent of the campaign. In addition, we commission qualitative and quantitative surveys to monitor changes in traveller's behaviour and attitudes as well as providing guidance for the future direction of the campaign.

Libya: Terrorism

David Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many officials in his Department are working full-time on assisting the victims of IRA terrorism to seek compensation from Libya; how many other officials will be employed full-time on this work as a consequence of the implementation of the proposals in the Prime Minister's announcement in Germany on 6 September 2009; and if he will make a statement.

Ivan Lewis: Three officials have been redeployed within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to provide support for the families and their representativetwo in London full-time and one at our embassy in Tripoli part-time. The team will also be supported by FCO legal advisers.

Libya: Terrorism

William Hague: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects his Department's unit dedicated to helping those affected by Irish Republican Army terrorism and their families seeking compensation from Libya to be operational; and if he will make a statement.

David Miliband: The new Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Libya IRA Compensation Unit was set up on 7 September 2009. Representatives of the families met No. 10 and FCO officials at No. 10 in a 45 minute meeting on 8 September 2009. The new head of the unit attended. The unit is comprised of three officialstwo in London full-time and one at our embassy in Tripoli part-time. The team will also be supported by FCO legal advisers.

Advantage West Midlands

Bob Neill: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many of its projects Advantage West Midlands has  (a) reviewed and  (b) cancelled in the last 12 months.

David Lammy: The information is as follows:
	(a) The agency reviewed its Corporate Plan in the first quarter of the 2009-10 financial year, to take account of the changing priorities resulting from the recession (in particular, the need to prioritise support for business) and the reduction in its budget. As part of this exercise the agency reviewed its investment plans and project portfolio. The aim was to ensure that investments were targeted on those activities that would deliver the greatest benefits for the region. From the outset, Advantage West Midlands undertook to continue to fund all legally committed projects that were being delivered in accordance with contractual conditions. This meant that 600 projects, to which it was legally-committed, were unaffected by the review process. The 306 project proposals to which the agency was not yet legally committed were systematically reviewed against the following criteria:
	Impact
	Spatial focus
	Response to recession
	Deliverability.
	All agency-funded projects, once contracted and being delivered, are subject to continuing review through regular monitoring visits by agency project and contract managers. This is standard procedurethe aim being to ensure that projects meet contractually-agreed objectives and fulfil the agreed terms and conditions. Where this has not been the case, the agency has reduced or clawed-back funding on a pro-rata basis.
	(b) No legally-committed projects have been cancelled in the past 12 months. As a result of its project review, the agency announced at the end of June 2009 that, of the 306 non-legally committed project proposals reviewed, 184 had been allocated agency funding. The total investment in these projects and the 600 existing projects over their lifetimes will be c1.1 billion. Since June the agency has continued to work with applicants to explore alternative funding and delivery arrangements for those projects that were not supported.

Business: Essex

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding his Department and its predecessors allocated to the development of small businesses in  (a) Essex and  (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

David Lammy: EEDA's business support services are funded and operate at a regional level. It is, therefore, not possible to break down funding to the requested level in every instance.
	The following information identifies funding during the past five years for these services and, where possible, in Essex and Castle Point. Please note that not all of these schemes were in place five years ago, therefore details provided go back as far back as possible.
	Business Link East (BLE)Since 1 April 2007, EEDA has given 32 million of funding to the Business Link Provider in the region to deliver a wide range of business support. During this time, BLE has supported 41,790 businesses in Essex, including 1,612 in Castle Point.
	MAS-EastEEDA has funded MAS-East to the value of 3.4 million for the period 2005-08 and has awarded a further 3.3 million for the period 2008-11. Since November 2005 MAS has supported 362 Essex businesses, carrying out in-depth projects with 38 businesses generating 2,553,100 of Gross Value Added. This has included six businesses supported in Castle Point, working intensively with one company.
	Business finance schemesSince April 2005, EEDA has awarded 16 Essex businesses 1,328,282 in funding through the Grant for Research and Development scheme, with a further six at approval stage with a value of 481,870.
	Additionally, since April 2006 19 Essex businesses have been awarded 384,712 in Proof of Concept grants, with a further one approved with the value of 8,000. Since April 2004, 19 Essex businesses have received funding Grant for Business Investment (GBI) to the value of 1,242,035(1).
	TakeItOn49 grants to Essex businesses since December 2007 have totalled 135,596.
	(1) Some of the above are grants to businesses under either the Grants for Business Investment (GBI) or Grant for Research and Development (GRaD) programmes. GBI, previously known as Selective Finance for Investment in England (SFIE), transferred to EEDA from the Small Business Service (SBS) in April 2002. GRaD transferred to EEDA from SBS in April 2005.

Business: Essex

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding his Department and its predecessors allocated to the development of information technology businesses in  (a) Essex and  (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years.

David Lammy: EEDA funds a range of regional services to support businesses from all sectors across the region. This includes the regional Business Link service, specialised support schemes and Business Finance grants for eligible businesses.
	While all of these services are available to support IT businesses across the region, EEDA does not specifically allocate money by sector or area.
	Where possible, direct grants to IT businesses in Essex and Castle Point have been identified:
	EEDA business finance grantsGrants to help businesses prove their market or expand their business and a range of loans to support business growth. Since April 2007, EEDA has provided 151,483 to IT businesses in Essex(1).
	TakeITonCampaign to assist businesses to improve their use of IT, focused on helping SMEs save costs through IT. This EEDA programme started in November 2007. Since then, it has provided 750,678 to help businesses make better use of IT in the region. Within this, 76,561 was provided to IT businesses in the region.
	Of this, 4,572 was directly to IT businesses in Essex(2).
	Business Link EastEEDA has funded the regional Business Link service since 1 April 2007 which supports businesses from all sectors. Since assuming management of the service, Business Link East has interacted with 41,790businesses in Essex, of which 1,612 are in Castle Point.
	(1) Some of the above are grants to businesses Grant for Research and Development (GRaD) programmes. GRaD transferred to EEDA from SBS in April 2005.
	(2) This programme is aimed at increasing use of IT in businesses and therefore we would expect take-up from the IT sector to be low given their area of expertise.

Business: Insurance

Lorely Burt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  how many applications have been  (a) received and  (b) approved under the trade credit insurance top-up scheme in each month since the scheme was introduced;
	(2)  how much cover has been  (a) requested and  (b) approved under the trade credit insurance top-up scheme in each month since the scheme was introduced.

Ian Lucas: holding answer 9 September 2009
	 As of 28 August there have been 59 approved applications to a value of 8,429,865 broken down as follows:
	
		
			   Number of policies accepted  Value of policies () 
			 May 11 633,000 
			 June 8 1,155,000 
			 July 26 4,476,000 
			 To 28 August 14 2,165,365 
		
	
	31 applications to a value of 1,915,210 have been rejected by the Trade Credit Insurers as being ineligible under the scheme rules. It is not possible to analyse these by month.

Business: Insurance

Lorely Burt: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many applications made under the trade credit insurance top up scheme from businesses with an annual turnover of  (a) less than 5 million,  (b) between 5 and 10 million,  (c) between 10 million and 25 million,  (d) between 25 and 50 million,  (e) between 50 and 100 million and  (f) more than 100 million have been (i) accepted and (ii) rejected since the establishment of the scheme.

Ian Lucas: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The scheme is administered by four trade credit insurance companies, who collect a range of information on the Department's behalf. The information on acceptances and rejections does not disaggregate applicants by turnover.
	As of 28 August, 59 applications have been accepted and 31 rejected.

Debts: Government Assistance

David Amess: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to assist those with high levels of personal debt; what steps Ministers in his Department  (a) have taken during the last two years and  (b) plan to take during the next year to raise awareness of his Department's services in their region; what (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation regulates the activities of debt advisers; what amendments have been made to each such enactment; what changes to such legislation are planned in the next 12 months; how much his Department (A) has spent on debt advice in each of the last three years and (B) plans to spend in the next two years; what recent representations he has received on the issue; and if he will make a statement.

Ian Lucas: holding answer 9 September 2009
	The Department provides a broad package of support to individuals with high levels of personal debt. As set out in the Government's White Paper A Better Deal for Consumers: Delivering Real Help Now and Change for the Future published on 2 July, the Government are focusing efforts to ensure that:
	creditors across the board offer some relief to customers who find themselves in financial difficulty;
	free, independent debt advice and support is available for those who need it;
	industry and the advice community both follow best practice guidance in handling clients with problem debt;
	the most appropriate debt remedies are in place to support the over-indebted; and
	there is better legal protection for debtors' property.
	In particular, the Department is funding a new self-help debt advice toolkit being developed by the Money Advice Trust, which will enable debtors to negotiate debt repayments with creditors themselves with more targeted advice agency support. This assisted self-help approach should allow over-indebted consumers to reach agreement more speedily and start making regular payments to reduce their debt. Use of the toolkit will also reduce pressure on the debt advice agencies and allow many more debtors in need of advice to be assisted.
	Debt advisers are regulated by the Consumer Credit Act, last revised in 2006, and are required to have a consumer credit licence. There are no plans to amend the legislation in this latter area.
	From 2006-07 to 2008-09 the Department provided:
	1 million each year to National Debtline; and
	approximately 15 million in the first year, and 28 million in the next two, to the Face-to-Face Debt Advice Project.
	In 2009-10 and 2010-11 the Department intend to provide:
	3.5 million each year to National Debtline; and
	approximately 28 million in the first year, and 29 million in the second, to the Face-to-Face Debt Advice Project.
	The Department receives frequent representations from stakeholders on our assistance programmes.

Employment Schemes: Coventry

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent steps the Government has taken to assist young people in Coventry to secure employment.

David Lammy: The global recession has hit the west midlands hard and young people are feeling the impact of this. Government are clear that Britain cannot afford a wasted generation of young people, lost to unemployment and although, under this Government opportunities for young people have improved (at the end of 2008 we had the highest ever rate of 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training in England), a number of measures are already in place that will provide further help to school leavers, graduates and young unemployed people, including those in Coventry.
	For example this year across England we expect there to be 250,000 young people starting an apprenticeship and we have recently announced an extra 47,000 youth jobs supported by the Future Jobs Fund for young people who are unable to find work or training within a year. Through this fund Coventry city council will provide 50 job starts during October 2009 and a further 100 job starts in January 2010.
	We recently launched a national campaign Backing Young Britain to ensure we do everything possible to give every young person help to find a job or training or work skills and experience. This will provide 40 million to fund over 20,000 additional internships so that graduates and non graduates can get higher quality work experience; a new mentoring network to help young people find their feet in a tough jobs market; more help for young people from day one of unemployment through job clubs and one to one support in jobcentres for those leaving education this summer.
	In the west midlands regional partners have responded with their own initiatives to help unemployed young people. For example, the West Midlands Graduate Internship Programme will create 250 graduate internships and, uniquely, graduates who are unemployed may be eligible for job seekers allowance through Job Centre Plus. Also there is a new 2.5 million programme funded by Advantage West Midlands called Grad Central online service,
	www.grad-central.co.uk,
	which will place at least 2,000 more people into jobs over the next four years. In addition, Graduate Advantage, led by Aston University, has funding from Advantage West Midlands to provide a further 400 placements by 2011. Partners are also providing specific help for redundant apprentices.
	Jobcentre Plus in Coventry has a range of measures to help young people in the city secure employment. It is supporting Backing Young Britain by encouraging key local employers, partners and stakeholders to give their personal commitment to offering jobs, apprenticeships, work trials, work experience, internships and mentoring advice. This has been met with a positive response from both the public and private sector, including BUPA Home Care, TUI UK and west midlands policeCoventry division. In addition, Jobcentre Plus advisers have referred 114 18 to 24-year-olds to the extensive job search and confidence building support that is available on the first day of unemployment. Further job search support for groups of 18 to 24-year-old customers is due to start in the near future in partnership with Coventry Connexions.
	Coventry city council and its Local Strategic Partnership has prioritised support to assist young people into employment via its Local Area Agreement. The Local Public Service Board has recently approved the use of 550,000 Area Based Grant funding to support a six-month employment placement scheme, which will provide 100 placements for new unemployed graduates, redundant managers and those in the NEET category that fall outside the Future Jobs Fund and other provision provided by ESF and Connexions programmes.

Innovation Fund

Tony Baldry: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to the Building Britain's Future document, what mechanisms will be used to ensure that the new Innovation Fund levers in up to 1 billion of private sector funding.

David Lammy: The Government are committing 150 million of tax payer's investment to build a fund of up to 1 billion over its 10-year life. The Government expects that its investment of 150 million will leverage significant investment from the private sector.
	Prior to the launch of the UK Innovation Investment Fund a number of institutional investors expressed an interest in investing in the fund and we would anticipate that the Fund of Funds manager will be able to secure additional private investment from within the UK and overseas.
	On 3 August the Government and Capital for Enterprise Limited issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) from prospective Fund of Funds manager(s) for the UK Innovation Investment Fund. Prospective managers are asked to set out their investment strategies and to demonstrate how they will raise money from private sector investors. We aim to make an appointment in December.

Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries

Mark Todd: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been spent on the vehicle scrappage scheme; and if he will make a statement.

David Lammy: 79,540,000 has been claimed and paid under the vehicle scrappage scheme. This information was correct as at 8 September.

Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries

Greg Knight: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many individuals have claimed the 2,000 allowance for scrapped vehicles over 10 years old in respect of more than one vehicle.

David Lammy: There have been 112 occurrences of more than one vehicle being scrapped by the same individual or business entity.

Regional Development Agencies: Trade Unions

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding each regional development agency has granted to trade union bodies since each such agency was established.

Rosie Winterton: RDAs fund initiatives through a variety of third party organisations to deliver projects to increase economic growth, such as on workforce development and economic inclusion. The specific focus and priorities of such activities are set out in each region's Regional Economic Strategy and will differ according to the needs, opportunities and priorities for economic growth in each region.
	The following table shows RDA funding to trade unions for 2003 to 2009. The RDAs retain records of the last six years. To provide records before this period will incur disproportionate costs.
	
		
			  RDA  Total amount of RDA funding to trade unions 2003 to 2009 () 
			 Advantage West Midlands 1,151,116 
			 East of England Development Agency 189,000 
			 East Midlands Development Agency 744,000 
			 London Development Agency 911,000 
			 North West Development Agency 801,957 
			 One North East 472,569 
			 South East Development Agency 97,303 
			 South West Development Agency 2,112,592 
			 Yorkshire Forward 446,816

Risk and Regulation Advisory Council: Finance

John Penrose: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the budget of the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council is for 2009-10; and how much the Council spent on  (a) secretarial and administrative support,  (b) advertising and marketing,  (c) forum events and  (d) publications in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Ian Lucas: For 2009-10, the budget of the unit responsible for raising awareness of the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council work and tools, covers both work connected to the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council and work unrelated to the Council. It is not possible to give a figure just for the work relating to the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council. However a provisional sum of 70,000 from a separate budget has been made available to this unit to use to raise awareness of the work of the RRAC and encourage the use of the tools it developed.
	The following expenditure figures are in respect of the 2008-09 financial years:
	 (a) secretarial and administrative support: 251,000 (includes staff salaries and associated costs. This figure is different to that given in a previous answer as it represents expenditure rather than budget)
	 (b) and  (c) advertising and marketing (including Public Relations) and forum events: 114,000
	 (d) publications:28,000.